Become a Great Academy
The strategic intent of Great Academies is to grow in a considered fashion, building partner primary school clusters in geographical proximity to our secondary academies. The partnerships will be built around our GREAT values to ensure that our Trust and schools are values-led organisations.
Potential Partners;
- Preferably graded by Ofsted as Good or Outstanding and who are outward-facing and willing to bring capacity to the Trust to share our work on school improvement.
- We welcome partnership with Requires Improvement schools, and schools in any category of concern, and these must be open to full engagement with the Great Academies School Improvement model and have the capacity to improve, indicated in recent s5 or s8 inspections.
- A commitment to establish or maintain the school at the heart of its community, fulfilling its civic obligations as well as providing the best possible education for the children, leading to their best possible outcomes.
- A commitment to the continuing professional development of all employees, including Initial Teacher Training (ITT), the Early Career Framework (ECF), National Professional Qualifications (NPQ) and all other professional qualifications across teaching and non-teaching staff bodies.
- A desire to ensure that the family of schools working together in a MAT is beneficial for all, including a commitment to work for the greater good of everyone.
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We’re all set up for today’s jobs fair at Dukinfield town Hall, 10am-1pm. We have vacancies at Copley Academy, Great Academy Ashton and we are promoting our amazing teacher training programme #wearehiring @getintoteaching @PioneersITT @GAAshton_news @copleyacademy
It’s great to have opportunities like this, getting students thinking about carrying on their education after secondary school #lookingback #memories
Our schools have a great community spirit and take pride in raising money for important charities such as the Teenage Cancer Trust. Well done to everyone who was involved with this! #lookingback #memories #teenagecancertrust
Could one or more of these inspirational students be representing Great Britain in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles? Watch this space! #lookingback #memories #Olympics
The best memories are where we have seen former students chasing their dreams and achieving amazing things. What a fantastic achievement this is for Leanne Cullen-Unsworth who has gone on to playing an important role in protecting the planet! #lookingback #memories
We are thrilled that our former Copley Academy pupil, Anthony Harding, has won a bronze medal at the Olympics with his teammate Jack Laugher. We couldn’t be prouder, well done Anthony! @copleyacademy #Paris2024Olympics #Paris2024
One of our favourite memories from this year was Steve Banham, our very talented chef at Silver Springs Primary, winning the ‘Rising Star’ award in Jamie Oliver’s ‘The Good School Food Awards’ #lookingback #memories #jamieoliver #GoodSchoolFoodAwards
Silver Springs Primary Academy, Stalybridge – Jamie Oliver’s Good School Food Awards
Chef Mr Banham is a culinary hero at Silver Springs, with the children raving about his delicious seasonal meals …
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So many awards have been won across our schools this academic year, due to the hard work and dedication of our teams, however achieving 100% was truly incredible! #lookingback #memories
As we spend the summer holidays looking back at some of the fantastic achievements this past year in our schools, the setting up of a mental health group by our Associate Principal at Copley, is one of the best. Well done Carl Heatley & friends! #lookingback #youalrightchief